Autographic register



J. Q. SHERMAN.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 15, 1919.

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UNITED STATES JOHN G. SHERMAN, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

AUTOGRAZPHIC REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 26, 1921.

Application filed November 15, 1919. Serial No. 338,154.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Q,. SHERMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Dayton, in the county of Mont; gomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the drawings forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to autographic registers of the type which roll up and store a full sized record of the transactions registered on the strips issued from the machine. This type of register has been developed by me in the past and the present invention involves a simple structure of small expense which operates by a spring to roll up the record strip during periods when the main paper feed is out of operation.

As has been developed by me, this mode of operation permits of the record strip being fed along with the regular duplicate strips, and accumulating in the casing during the regular feed, thereby permitting it to be held in alinement with the other strips, and still providing for the complete winding or rolling of it, at the close of each feeding operation.

Itis my object in my invention herein to reduce to very simple and compact form a record rolling device of the above character, and I accomplish my object by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed. e

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the essential features of my invention.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the record roll, showing its connection to the spring actuating device.

The casing'of the autographic register is indicated at 1, in which casing'is mounted the main shaft 2 of the register. As shown in the illustration of my invention herein I feed the regular strips of paper including the record strip by means of a pair of pin bearingbodies or'wheels 3 connected to the shaft 2 at each end thereof and carefully alined with each other. The pins 4 on said bodies enter marginal perforations in the paper. .11

i? ii Mounted loosely on the shaft is a or drum 5, which carries a ratchet spring pawl 6 mounted on one of the pin wheels 3 normally bears against the ratchet 7, so that the revolution of the will carry the drum with it.

A spring housing 8 containing a coiled spring 9 is secured on a stud 10 in the side of the casing. On the housing 8 is wound a cable 11 which passes over an idler 12, and thence up to the pulley 5. When the operating handle 13 on the shaft 2 is revolved, the ratchet and pawl device moves the pulley around so as to wind up on the cord and put pin wheel the spring housing 8 under tension of the? is to be wound up is provided at one endwith a recess 17, which houses a coiled spring 18. Into this recess fits a mounting pin 19, that at its outer end engages in a recess in the machine casing.

The other end of the roll is provided with a ratchet 20 which is pressed frictionally against the inner side of the spring housing 8, by means of the spring 18 pressing against the inner end of the mounting pin. When the housing revolves it will carry with it the ratchet and the roll.

In order to prevent motion except in one direction of the roll, a pawl 21 is mounted on the side of the casing, and pressed against this ratchet 20, so as to prevent clockwise motion of the roll.

The operation of the machine is thus evident. The operator revolves the feeding shaft by means of the handle which carries the desired duplicate sheets out of the machine, and at the same time, moves the record sheet A into the compartment of the casing beyond the feeding devices, and over an idler 22. This last mentioned sheet accumulates during the feeding motion and hangs loosely. The spring operator, however, is at the same time energized and at the close of the feeding operation released, whereupon it rapidly rolls up the slack in the record sheet.

The parts are proportioned so that the spring housing revolves more than is necessary to wind up all of the accumulated record at any one feeding operation, and

' the remainder of the motion over and above that necessary to accomplish the tight winding is taken up by the frictional slip between the spring housing and the ratchet at the end of the record roll.

The parts of vthis mechanism are few and simple in operation, and the operation thereof will result in a tightly wound record strip of 'full size as compared to the issued strips.

It is not my desire that the claims that follow be limited beyond the inclusion therein of mechanical equivalents to the parts named, because of my failure above to point out the various substitutions of equivalents .possible for the parts specifically described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an autographic register, the combination with a rotary feed device for feeding a plurality of strips of paper together with a record strip, all of said strips to receive impression copies of the topmost one thereof, of a roll fobstoring the record strip, a rotating spring impelled body, and

a trip device controlled by the feed device for timing the motion thereof free of the feed device, said roll for storing the record being actuated by said rotating spring impelled body.

2. In an autographic register, the combination with a feed device for feeding a plurality of strips of paper together with a record strip, all of said strips to receive impression copies of the topmost one thereof, of a roll for storing the record strip, a rotating spring impelled body, means on thefeed device for energizing and releasing the spring impelled body, said roll for storing the record being actuated by said rotating spring impelled body.

3. In an autographic register, the combination with afeed device for feeding a plurality of strips of paper together with a record strip, all of said strips to receive impression copies of the topmost one thereof, of a roll for storing the record strip, a rotating spring impelled body, means on the feed device for energizing and releasing the spring impelled body, said roll for storing the record being actuated by said rotating spring impelled body, said roll having a spring for frictionally retaining it against the said rotating body.

4. In an autographic register, the combination with a feed device for feeding a plurality of strips of paper together with a record strip all of said strips to receive impression copies of the topmost one thereof, of a roll for storing the record strip, a 1'0- tating spring impelled body, means on the feed device for energizing and releasing the spring impelled body, said roll for storing the record being actuated by said rotating spring impelled body, and means connected to the roll for preventing its movement except in one direction.

5. In an autographic register, the combination of a rotary feed device for feeding, and maintaining in accurate registry with each other a plurality of strips of paper including a record strip, of a roll for storing the record strip, a rotating spring impelled body and means in connection with the feeding device for releasing the said rotating body, at the close of each feeding operation of the machine for rotation entirely free of the feeding device.

6. In an autographic register, the combination of a rotary feed device for feeding, and maintaining in accurate registry with each other a plurality of strips of paper including a record strip, of a roll for storing the record strip, a rotating spring impelled body, said feeding means having devices for winding up said spring impelled body and releasing it for operation entirely independent of the motion of the feed device, said release being timed to occur at the close of each feeding operation of the machine.

JOHN Q. SHERMAN. 

